I am an evil giraffe. Who no longer blogs about politics.

It’s not the fact that they experimented with air-to-air atomic weapons. I understand the basic thought process behind that. It’s not even that they had people standing right underneath it when it went off. I assume that the basic danger was low, although you probably should never assume that when it comes to the intrepid pioneers of the Atomic Age.

Personally, I’d be a bit worried about how much fallout is going to get generated from a pure air explosion (you’d still get at least a little) and where it was eventually going to drift down. But then: I’m not an intrepid pioneer of the Atomic Age. Those guys probably had to jockey to get a spot at Ground Zero.